Schpuzzle of the Week:
Are pears, oft pared, oft paired?
Name a pair of often-paired foods.
Switch the initial letters of the result to spell a pair of synonyms.
What are these foods and synonyms?
Hint: Most people would say that the often-paired foods are not “junk food.”
Appetizer Menu
Promethean Appetizer:
“Patrick’s thirty-second Cryptic Crossword is no thirty-second solve!”
Astute Puzzlerian!s will notice a certain similarity in a handful of Patrick’s 26 clues. This similarity is not a coincidence. Suffice it to say that, in my humble opinion, this is one of Patrick’s most amazing cryptic crosswords yet... and that’s saying something!
If you have missed any of Patrick’s previous 31 cryptic crosswords on Puzzleria!, here are their links:
For those of you who may be new to cryptic crossword puzzles, Patrick has compiled the following list of basic cryptic crossword puzzle instructions:
Regarding the Across and Down clues and their format:
The number, or numbers, that appear in parentheses at the end of each clue indicate how many letters are in the answer.
Multiple numbers in parentheses indicate how letters are distributed in multiple-word answers. For example, (6) simply indicates a six-letter word like “puzzle,” (7,9) indicates a seven-letter and nine-letter answer like “cryptic crossword,” and (6-6) indicates a six-letter and six-letter hyphenated answer like “thirty-second.”
For further insight about how to decipher these numbered cryptic clues, see Patrick’s “Cryptic Crossword Tutorial” in this link to his November 17, 2017 cryptic crossword.
That Tutorial appears below the grid that contains the answers in that edition of Puzzleria!
ACROSS
7. Starts once more to get booster shot?(7)
10. A soldier in trouble, being slow(6)
11. Significant 70s rock groups—one of them wasting energy, time?(8)
13. I got rare, uh, “moves” in video game(6,4)
14. “Housewife” looking for stuff about what this puzzle doesn’t have?(6,5)
19. For example, her recording gets a little erotic, it’s clear(10)
22. Stone—some gem, maybe?(4)
23. Old dog, unmarried now, dating again?(3,5)
25. “Housewife”, not perfect, gets very loud(7)
26. Start now, love(7)
1. Worried, as trouble started(7)
3. “Housewife” starts to toss recipes in air(6)
4. Sophisticated young lady, as it happens(8)
5. Depression, constantly missing husband(6)
6. Off-screen? Yes, getting set(7)
“The chicken or the egg?”(4,7)
15. Walk with a purpose, initially, when in bar(8)
16. “Housewife”—the gal managed to get wild, defying the odds(8)
17. Some argumentative couple in hurry—hard to get away? Hard!(7)
18. Challenge writer’s vision(7)
20. Warn of it getting worse in New York(6)
21. “Housewife”—ultimately, man in drag?(6)
MENU
Sound & Fury “Signifying Nothing” Hors d’Oeuvre:
Sins? (No, signs!) of omission
Take a word for punctuation that points to an omission in the text. The word itself provides a partially omitted visual example of this punctuation mark.
What is this word?
What is the partially omitted example it provides?
Hint: A world capital, an island nation, and a synonym of shenanigans each provide a visual example of this punctuation that is not partially omitted.
Vidiot Box Slice:
“Citified” television personalities
The surname of a related TV personality is a
non-fictional TV show city that is associated
with that fictional TV show.
Who are these personalities?
What are the fictional TV show city and non-fictional TV show city associated with it?
Riffing Off Shortz And Humphreys Slices:
“Koalamazoo?” “Kalanmazoo?”
Name a well-known U.S. city in four syllables.
The first two syllables, with a letter inserted, will name an animal — one that might be found in the place named by the last syllable.
What city is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Humphreys Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Take the aspect of music that comprises accent, meter, and tempo; a musical composition suggesting improvisation; and the first name of one of “The Three B’s.”
Who is this puzzle-maker?What are the aspect of music, the musical composition, and the first name of one of “The Three B’s?”
Note: Entree #2 was composed by a valued Puzzleria! contributor and “occasional correspondent.” Our thanks.
ENTREE #2
Think of a person whose surname sounds like a musical instrument and whose first name is an anagram of a body part.
Who is the person?
In what place might the animal be found?
What is the animal?
Name a U.S. city in four syllables that is in the title of a nearly-century old song. Rearrange the combined letters of this city to spell two animals and the name of a human animal. The human animal is associated with non-human animals, including those two.
What city is it?
Who is the human?
What are the animals?
ENTREE #4
The two-word name of the group consists of two cities — one in New York State, the other a state capital. One of the cities is also the name of an animal.
What are the southern city and the rock group?
What is the song title?
What are the New York city and the state capital?
ENTREE #5
Name a well-known southern U.S. city in four syllables. Remove consecutive interior letters that spell the first name of a sitcom character.
What city is it?
Who is the sitcom character?
What is the comedy troupe?
ENTREE #6
The first city and the first syllable of the second city spell the name of a poet whose poems sometimes feature animals.
What cities are these?
Who is the poet?
Hint: Animals the poet wrote about include a cow, pig, duck, llama, fly and octopus.
Name a well-known U.S. city in three syllables. Place duplicates of the last two letters at the end of the city. (For example, “Amarillo” would become “Amarillolo,” and “Honolulu” would become “Honolululu.”)
The first four letters of the result spell the name of an American disco band. The remaining letters, after you insert two hyphens, spell a synonym of the noun “disco.”
What city is it?
What is the name of the disco band?
What is the synonym of “disco”?
Name a not-so-well-known southern Californian city in two syllables. Changing a vowel in the city to a different vowel results in
the surname of a gifted album cover artist who was one-half of a rock duo who helped pioneer the “California Sound” and vocal surf music.
Delete the penultimate letter of the city. Move the last letter into the fourth position and place a space after it. The result is two synonyms of “scurried.”
What city is it?
What is the rock duo?
What are the synonyms of “scurried?”
ENTREE #9
Name a well-known U.S. West Coast city in four syllables and two words.
syllable.
What city is this?
What is the animal?
Hint #1: Change the eighth letter of the city to a different consonant to name a woman who portrayed Rosina, Violetta and Elisabetta.
Hint #2: Delete the first letter and second word of the city, leaving the surname of a harmonious pair of brothers.
Name a well-known U.S. capital city. Move the penultimate letter into the third position and rotate the last letter 180 degrees around its vertical (“y”) axis. The result is a kind of ear.
What is this city?
What is this kind of ear?
ENTREE #11
Name a well-known U.S. city, in two words, that is an oxymoronic term consisting of an adjective and noun.
What is this city?
What is the edible item consisting of an adjective and noun?
Hint: The U.S. city is in a state with a smaller city whose name consists of seven consecutive letters that appear twice in the puzzle text.
ENTREE #12
Name a well-known U.S. city, in three syllables, in both Minnesota and New York State.
The two-word result is an all-female folky vocal trio from New Jersey.
What’s this city that’s in two states?
What’s the folky vocal trio?
Dessert Menu
Sequential Dessert:
12th Night and hour... and number!
1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 9, 5, 1, 1, 10, __, __
Note: You might notice that we are not asking you to name the eleventh number in the sequence.
That is because there are arguably as many as
four possible “correct-answer” numbers for that eleventh number – all plausible, but none definitive.
Because of this ambiguity, you need not concern yourself with what those four “candidates” for the eleventh number might be... unless you want to, of course.
Hint: You may be bullish-green on a part of the accompanying image, but it may be a bit of a bearish-red herring, one that is also cardinal-red.
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Having just wasted about two fruitless hours going through song lists, and then all-cities US lists, I suddenly wondered if in Entree 3, we are supposed to be using JUST the city name to anagram, or the entire song TITLE? I got nowhere with the dozens of cities I tried (I got to anagramming before checking to even see if there had been an old song.)
ReplyDeleteIt's just a city name.
DeleteVT, don't forget to look at the artwork!
DeletePerhaps better known to Easterner folks, a famous country singer from the state- whose stage name begins with it- as far as i know did not sing the famous song. But sang another one associated with the pict in question.
DeleteI had no problem thinking of the city, but the breakdown into three animals eluded me until I found the right dictionary.
DeleteIf that picture in Entree #3 means the city I think it does, I have already TRIED it....but perhaps, like Paul just indicated, I haven't anagrammed it properly. I will try yet again...sigh....
DeleteDUH, I just got it. Had been down to the last four letters last night, and was SO focused on thinking that the 'man' had to be a vet or a DVM, that I missed the obvious person.
Delete"The right dictionary" referred to NOAH Webster's, of course.
DeleteHallelujah, I got another one!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiwMoW003Fo
DeleteThat was lovely, Very impressive!
DeleteGot all the Entrées rather quickly.
ReplyDeleteQuestion on the Dessert: There are 11 numbers listed. The eleventh number is 10. Do you want the number that follows the 10 or two after it (#13 in the sequence)? Please clarify.
Fantastically great editing of my Dessert "disaster," geofan. Thanks to you, I believe I have "cleaned it up."
DeleteMy great apologies to all... but my gratitude to geofan (Ken Pratt)!
LegoWhoIsObviouslyNumericallyChallenged!
This is still the stumper of the week for me, although I'm glad it's accurate now.
DeleteGood Friday evening(what's left of it here in AL)to you all!
ReplyDeleteMom and I are fine. We went out to Cracker Barrel with Bryan and Mia Kate earlier this evening. I had the country fried steak, bacon mac 'n' cheese, country green beans, a house salad with honey mustard dressing(they just can't get Thousand Island there any more!), and a Coke Zero. Mom and Bryan both had some kind of steak combo, pretty much the same sides and everything, and Mia Kate had the cheesecake pancakes with some fruit(strawberries I think). Our biscuits were overcooked, could've been a little better. Mia Kate's "Nutcracker" production will be some time in November, I believe on a Saturday night and then a second matinee Sunday afternoon. I've forgotten the exact date by now, but I'm sure the second day will be a matinee performance. Then we said goodbye to them, came home, and I listened to Sounds of the 70s on BBC2(almost forgetting to like I had done last week). Then I did the latest Prize Crossword(by Paul once again), which somehow worked the phrase BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR into three separate answers within the grid. Then came Wordle(actually, Wordle and Connections hadn't been updated yet, but I did everything else), and now here I am. I hope everyone is enjoying my crossword(if VT just doesn't want to do it, she doesn't have to, I fully understand). Will eventually provide hints for the clues between now and Wednesday.
And now, my progress so far:
Excluding my own puzzle, I was able to get the Hors d'Oeuvre and the Slice(although I have my doubts about the connection between the real city and the fictional TV city, as there were only two, maybe three episodes in which the real city played a minor role), and all Entrees except #2, #3(obviously I am not alone in being stumped by this one), and #11. Which leaves the Schpuzzle and the Dessert, and even with Lego being called out about an error in the latter, I still don't think I'll be able to get it since I'm not any good at any sort of math puzzles. All I can say in conclusion is: Lego, since you'll have to provide hints, you gotta prove me wrong on the math!
Good solving to all, please stay safe, and I just looked up the one song that instantly came to mind as I looked at the #3 image, and all I can say is, depending on who you talk to, this is either a perfect example of a "nearly-century-old" song(I think it calls for two hyphens, Lego)or not so much. Me, I'm on the fence about it. Plus, I can't really think of a "human animal" you could get out of this city's name, since the last time a human was actually counted as an animal in a puzzle(not long ago, maybe even last week), it had letters that aren't in this city's name. Any clarification of this will also be helpful. Cranberry out!
pjbDreadsHavingToEditThisPostInTheEventHeGetsANotificationSayingIt'sTooLongToPublish(FingersCrossed!)
Congrats on number 32 Patrick. Roll Tide. Even though i am in G.A. it would be nice to see the Tide--well...
ReplyDeleteI have all the Entrees and MAY have the Schpuzzle. I'm unsure because when the foods are spoken of together, both are typically spoken of in the plural form, e.g. "beans and franks," rather than the singular, e.g., "bread and cheese." But one of the two synonyms in my answer is the same in both its singular and plural forms. So my answer only works if the singular forms of the foods are used, e.g., "bean and frank," which sounds a bit awkward. If anyone knows the correct answer, I would like to know if it has this quality; otherwise I will need to keep working on it.
ReplyDeleteNot to change the subject, but i hope V.T. and Tort were able to watch last week's Legomasters "Cat palace challenge." Each cat had a different personality and the builds had to reflect this. Very creative. The winner's cat was in love with lasers and the build reflected that.
ReplyDeleteBean and frank sounds more like a prison term.
I am not particularly a cat person, Plantie....and I no longer have cable TV, so I couldn't have watched this challenge if I had wanted to. I do imagine Tortie would have liked it!
DeleteThat sounds cool, PS! No, I did not see it. Is it On Demand/streaming anywhere?
DeleteI will ask my son. Maybe on U tube? I don't have cable right now either.
DeleteI did some research on this, and found that there's a free, nonsubscription app called Tubi that shows Lego Masters. The cat episode isn't there yet, though.
DeleteOK. Thanks i will check it out.
Delete" i.e- Where puzzles go to die." or the Island of lost toys? Many of us seek out the Holy Grail of puzzling- the Sunday one- and perhaps spend several years in that noble quest- yet how many have found their puzzle on Alexa's daily double??
Delete"To dream the impossible dream."
Good morning. Well, this week's puzzles have been far easier for me than last week's! Pretty much breezed through the Entrees (only #2 slowed me down a bit - turns out I actually know of this football player) and solved the Hors d'Oeuvre and Slice (very clever!). I even solved much of the Cryptic Crossword, thanks to figuring out the theme right away.
ReplyDeleteAny hints for the Schpuzzle, App, and (especially) the Dessert will be appreciated.
DeleteForgot to mention that as usual, even though I filled in much of the crossword, I don't understand why many of these answers fit the cryptic part. It's possible that some of my answers are wrong.
Well, I can give you a hint for MY Schpuzzle answer, but as stated above it may not be correct. In my answer, the synonyms are nouns describing a living creature, though this creature is sometimes mentioned in a humorous context in which it is not living.
DeleteOK, I have the answer now. The hint didn't help at first, but now have confirmed I have the same answer as you. One of my synonyms is really a subset of the other one, rather than an exact match. There's another weird connection that I will mention later, probably after next week's puzzles are released.
DeleteTortieWhoStillNeedsToFigureOutRestOfAppAndTheDessert
From the hint below I think our answer is right, though as I said above, I think it only works in the singular. I noticed some weird connections too: you could paint a picture of the four foods and synonyms with just two colors (roughly), and the synonyms are also foods to some.
DeleteSunday Evening Hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
One of the two often-paired foods is visible in the puzzle text.
Promethean Appetizer:
In the past, cranberry has provided hints for his cryptic puzzle clues. I invite him to do the same, as he sees fit.
Sound & Fury “Signifying Nothing” Hors d'Oeuvre:
Hall-of-Famer Yelberton Abraham, thrice.
Vidiot Box Slice:
Who is the sitcom character (whose name sounds like two insects) who, like Dinah, is cooking up in the kitchen?
Riffing Off Shortz And Humphreys Slices:
ENTREE #1
A six-letter word in which "y" must serve as a vowel... it ain't "tryst!";
A nine-letter word in which "u" is the ninth letter;
A composer of a lullaby.
ENTREE #2
"What is your sign?
ENTREE #3
The human animal built a boat not with two-by-fours but with two-by-twos.
ENTREE #4
"Somethin's happenin' here..."
ENTREE #5
The well-known southern U.S. city is a capital city.
ENTREE #6
The U.S. city in the Appalachian Mountain state was named after the surname of a Revolutionary War general who was the brother of an ancestor of the poet.
ENTREE #7
A- Belinda, Charlotte,Gina, Jane, Kathy
E NTREE #8
Quayle and Shaheen, spoonerized
ENTREE #9
Wally, Ward, June...
ENTREE #10
The "ear" is edible, kinda like a cauliflower.
ENTREE #11
The lowermost image part of the accompanying image (which is difficult to identify... Mea Culpa!) is a confection.
The "smaller city" in the hint is "the Home of the Rails."
ENTREE #12
Benny's valet
Sequential Dessert:
Roman numerals come into play...
LegoWhoNotesThatThe"SmallerCity"InTheHintIs"TheRomeOfTheHails."
OK, I got the Hors d'Oeuvre, but it seems like the hint should say once and a half, not thrice. (?)
DeleteGot Entree #3, due in no small part to the hint. BTW The correct song lyric for #4 is "There's something happening here."
DeletepjbAlsoKnowsLegoWasRightTheFirstTimeAbout"Thrice",BecauseThat'sNotTheEntireNameInTheHint(ExactlyHowWould"OnceAndAHalf"FigureIntoIt?)
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Deletepjb, my comment was based on the literal wording of the Hors d'Oeuvre: "punctuation that points to an omission in the text" and "visual example of this punctuation mark." The familiar version of the name in the hint includes two examples of a punctuation mark that points to an omission in the text. The example you and Lego refer to isn't an example of a punctuation mark that points to an omission in the text. Two x 1.5 = 3.
DeleteNoddWhoHeardSomethingAboutAppHintsAndNoticedIt'sTuesday...
You're right, Nodd! So now, back by popular demand(one on behalf of all other bloggers here has finally said something), here are:
DeleteCryptic Crossword #32 Hints
ACROSS
7. "Night Court", "Murphy Brown", "Will and Grace", and "The Conners" (Roseanne), for example.
8. Such an easy thing to train...even my late Aunt Susan had one!
10. This word also precedes "tea", "grass", and "Dazzle".(Those of you who are Bronies should know why that last one's capitalized!)
11. One of the two rock groups can be spelled correctly using one letter from the other group. Remove those letters, and the remaining letters in that order spell a word that is a synonym for "group" or "band".
12. This word can also be a synonym of "run", with a change in pronunciation. However, "run" is not the straightforward part of the clue.
13. With this, you might be able to get past that opening riff in "Smoke On the Water"(D4 F4 G4, D4 F4 Ab4 G4, D4 F4 G4 F4 D4).
14. This "Housewife" would make one of the Brady kids angry?
19. Remove a part of speech from the middle of the word, and the remaining letters plus URE spell a synonym for "operation".
22. It's not just capitalized because it's the beginning of the clue(if I were actually grading everyone's work, I'd say to figure this one out would be an easy A).
23. Back in the 90s, many TV viewers learned it's where "the truth is".
24. This word might come in handy if you were to write a poem about an enlarged thyroid(making it actually make sense, now that's a whole other matter).
25. Though her real-life husband is also an actor, he is not to be confused with a series regular on "Maude". Think more formal(and still alive). Her first name is also the name of a college drama that premiered back in the early days of the WB network(when it still existed), and reportedly went off the air after its lead actress chose to get a haircut.
26. Sounds like "baby"---understand?
DOWN
1. The past tense of a word that's used as a verb in this case, as a noun it might be associated with 7 Across's " booster shot".
2. This clue brought to you by L'Oreal and Flaming Hot Cheetos.
3. Not at all weak, to the best of my knowledge she is no relation to one of the nine SNL cast members who left a short time ago. She did have a recurring role on "Seinfeld" as the nemesis of Elaine, portrayed by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who had left SNL a long time ago.
4. How one might look as a result of using Brylcreem back in the day.
5. Not necessarily the "Three Little" ones, but pigs may be found eating here.
6. What might appear in an actor's teeth if he/she overacts?
9. She knew Clark Kent personally.(BTW They're real, and they're spectacular!)
15. In doing my research to be able to come up with halfway decent hints, I just now discovered there's a JLaw movie by this name.
16. The "Housewife"'s last name sounds like the name of a well-known hotel chain. She shares her first name(phonetically)with a 70s one-hit wonder who needed "relating, not solitude".
17. A word in the clue, said in a Cockney accent(and spelled as such), begins the answer. It is followed by two pronouns, only phonetically.
18. They did this to Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, and of course, Donald Trump(twice so far). They want to do it to Joe Biden, too.
20. It's a verb usually associated with someone's next of kin.
21. I didn't even know China had a Beach!
pjbRemindingYou"HintsForClues"IsAServiceOfTheDepartmentForRedundancyDept.
pjb, thank you for your hints. Hopefully I will be able to make progress on the crossword now.
DeleteHas anyone figured out the Dessert? I tried a a few things but nothing worked. More hints would be appreciated on this one.
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DeleteYes, thanks, pjb; very helpful. Despite being ignorant of the housewives and everything related thereto, with enough online searching I managed to get everything except 11A and 6D. Great hint for 14A!
DeleteSorry, Tortie, no Dessert for me so far.
NoddWhoSays"ButMom,IAteAllMyDinner"
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A Few Tuesday Clues and Two Loose Ends:
ReplyDeleteEntree #2:
The "person whose surname sounds like a musical instrument and whose first name is an anagram of a body part" was the subject of two TV movies with musical sounding titles.
Dessert:
Spell the numbers out and take a mental journey to an ancient empire.
Loose Ends:
1. Nodd is correct. My hint for the Hors d'Oeuvre is confusingly ambiguous:
"Hall-of-Famer Yelberton Abraham, thrice."
That is a hint to the how the punctuation mark itself actually appears. It is not a hint for how its "partially omitted version" appears (for example, as it appears in the word for the punctuation).
2. I thank cranberry for supplying hints to his cryptic crossword.
LegoYelberton
And I thank you too, Lego, for the #2 hint! The name, as well as one of the TV movies(probably the more well-known, as I have no idea what the other one's called)just popped into my head. Still having trouble with the Dessert, though.
DeletepjbCanGiveAHintJustAsEasilyAsHeCanTakeIt(Hopefully!)
Actually, Lego, your hints are inimitable!
ReplyDeleteThanks cranberry and Nodd, but actually the hint for Entree #2 was generously supplied by the author of that riff... all I did was deliver it.
DeleteAs for the Dessert: The ordinal numbers in the image are a red herring, and the (red) cardinal numbers are the correct, least crappie path toward the solution.
LegoStrivingToProfferYouAllAMildCivilMixOfPuzzlesAndNotADimIllLividlMixOfPuzzles!
Finally got the Dessert. Can't say much of it beyond what Lego has already said, but there's a hidden code of sorts, but not every digit has it.
ReplyDeleteNodd, for the remaining two cryptic answers, I got an answer for 11A across but I'm not confident in it. Both of the bands alluded to in my answer are British. While my answer fits, not much of the clue nor the hint makes sense to me.
For 6D, it is something a ham actor like William Shatner might chew, but not swallow.
Thanks, Tortie! We definitely have the same two bands, but like you, I'm at a loss to explain how they fit with the hints. Still working on 6D, Dessert, and the non-fictional city for the Slice.
DeleteSCHPUZZLE – CARROT AND PEA; PARROT AND KEA
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZER
ACROSS
7. REBOOTS
8. PET ROCK
10. ADAGIO
11. ELO, QUEEN
12. TEAR
13. GUITAR HERO
14. MARCIA CROSS
19. PRONOUNCED
22. EMMA
23. OUT THERE
24. LOITER
25. HUFFMAN
26. INFANCY
DOWN
1. NEEDLED
2. LONGORIA
3. STRONG
4. DEBONAIR
5. TROUGH
6. ?
9. TERI HATCHER
15. CAUSEWAY
16. SHERIDAN
17. ARDUOUS
18. IMPEACH
20. NOTIFY
21. DELANY
HORS D’OEUVRE – ELLIPSIS. (In lower case, it has two dots. Hints: BEIJING; FIJI; HIJINKS.)
SLICE – MARY BERRY, PAUL HOLLYWOOD; MAYBERRY, HOLLYWOOD
ENTREES
1. JIM HUMPHREYS; RHYTHM; IMPROMPTU; JOHANNES
2. BRIAN PICCOLO; FOREST; BEAR
3. CHATANOOGA; NOAH; CAT, GOA
4. FORT WORTH; BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD; “FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH”; BUFFALO, SPRINGFIELD
5. MONTGOMERY; GOMER PYLE; MONTY PYTHON
6. OGDEN, NASHVILLE; OGDEN NASH
7. CHICAGO; CHIC; A-GO-GO
8. TORRANCE; JAN AND DEAN; TORE, RAN
9. BEVERLY HILLS; BEAVER
10. CONCORD; CORN COB
11. GREEN BAY; GRAY BEAN
12. ROCHESTER; THE ROCHES
DESSERT ?
Schpuzzle; PEAS, CARROTS; KEAS; PARROTS (Post hint: since the food is in the text, I think it’s more likely that the words are singular, like Nodd surmised: PEA, CARROT, KEA, PARROT)
ReplyDeleteApp: The theme is “Desperate Housewives.” I figured out the theme right away. I was a big fan of this show when it first aired. Very clever puzzle, although I’m still struggling with the cryptic part of it!
ACROSS: 7. REBOOTS; 8: PETROCK; 10. ADAGIO; 11: ELOQUENT (ELO + QUEEN; don’t understand this one); 12: TEAR; 13: GUITARHERO; 14: MARCIACROSS; 19: PRONOUNCED; 22. EMMA; 23: OUTTHERE; 24: LOITER; 25: HUFFMAN; 26: INFANCY
DOWN: 1. NEEDLES; 2. LONGORIA; 3. STRONG; 4: DEBONAIR; 5. TROUGH; 6. SCENERY; 9. TERIHATCHER; 15. CAUSEWAY; 16. SHERIDAN; 17. ARDUOUS; 18. IMPEACH; 20. NOTIFY; 21. DELANY
Hors d’Oeuvre: ellipsis, .. (tittles on tops of i’s and j’s) (Hint: Beijing, Fiji, hijinks)
Slice: MARY BERRY, PAUL HOLLYWOOD (judges on The Great British Bake Off); MAYBERRY, HOLLYWOOD (where The Andy Griffith Show was filmed)
Entrees:
1. JIM HUMPHREYS; RHYTHM, JOHANNES, IMPROMPTU
2. BRIAN PICCOLO; FOREST (Wake Forest); BEAR
3. CHATTANOOGA (song:CHATTANOOGA CHOO CHOO); NOAH; CAT, GOAT
4. FORT WORTH, BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD; FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH; BUFFALO, SPRINGFIELD
5. MONTGOMERY; GOMER PYLE; MONTY PYTHON
6. OGDEN, NASHVILLE
7. CHICAGO; CHIC; A GO GO
8. TORRANCE; JAN (Berry) AND DEAN (Torrence); TORE, RAN
9. BEVERLY HILLS; BEAVER (Hint: BEVERLY SILLS; Hint 2: EVERLY)
10. CONCORD; CORN COB
11. GREEN BAY; GRAY BEAN (Hint: SPOONER)
12. ROCHESTER; THE ROCHES
Dessert: (Post hints:) 55. Write the numbers out (ONE, TWO, etc.). If the written out number contains a Roman numeral, replace the number with the Arabic equivalent of the Roman numeral. There are no Roman numerals until FIVE (IV =4), then SIX (IX=9), etc. TWELVE would be LV, or 55. ELEVEN contains arguably L, V, or LV, so 50, 5, or 55 (not sure about the 4th choice - maybe keep 11?)
Nice job, on the Dessert, Tortie! I never got close.
DeleteOn the other one I didn't get, SCENERY for 6D of the Crossword, I didn't see anything in the clues to indicate that "ELOQUEEN" was supposed to be changed to "ELOQUENT" BEFORE solving 6D, so SCENERY didn't work in my grid.
Similarly, I don't understand how following the directions in the hint ["One of the two rock groups can be spelled correctly using one letter from the other group. Remove those letters, and the remaining letters in that order spell a word that is a synonym for "group" or "band"] results in changing ELOQUEEN to ELOQUENT, since neither ELO or Queen has a "T."
Finally, I couldn't find any resource that identified "eloquent" as a synonym for "group" or "band," or as a noun at all. Instead it is considered an adjective in the sources I saw.
Presumably this will be clarified when official answers are posted (or maybe the explanation is obvious and I'm just too dense to figure it out!)
NoddWhoDoesn'tFeelVery"Eloquent"AtTheMoment
Yeah, I really don't understand how ELOQUENT fits in. It's just the only "real word" I found that fit the pattern. Pretty sure SCENERY is correct, though (SCREEN + Y anagram; is synonym of SET).
Deletepjb is good at explaining this stuff, though, even though a lot of the time I feel like I could never have figured out the cryptic part.
chpuzzle: PEAS and CARROTS → KEAS and PARROTS
ReplyDeleteCryptic Puzzle:
Hors d'Oeuvre: ELLIPSIS = ellipsis (from the text) = … ; UNITED KINGDOM (of
Great Britain and Northern Island), BRUNEI (Darussalam); WASHINGTON (District of Columbia)
Slice: MARY BERRY (TV chef) – R, space = MAYBERRY (Andy Griffith show) = Mount Airy, NC; Ken BERRY
Entrées:
#1: JIM HUMPHREYS, NORTHAMPTON → RHYTHM, JOHANNES Brahms, IMPROMPTU
#2: BRIAN PICCOLO, BRAIN, Wake FOREST, BEARS
#3: CHATTANOOGA → CAT, GOAT, NOAH
#4: FORT WORTH – T → FOR What It's WORTH (Buffalo Springfield)
#5: MONTGOMERY – GOMER Pyle = MONTY Python
#6: OGDEN Utah, NASHVILLE – VILLE = OGDEN NASH
#7: CHICAGO + GO → CHIC A-GO-GO
#8: TORRANCE, chg A to E → Dean TORRENCE of Jan & Dean; RAN, TORE
#9: BEVERLY HILLS + A → BEAVER, HILLS (hint: Beverly Sills, Everly Brothers)
#10: CONCORD, move R, rotate D → CORN COB
#11: GREEN BAY → GRAY BEAN (hint: Spooner, WI)
#12: ROCHESTER → TER ROCHES - R + H → THE ROCHES
Dessert: If the spelled number in the series contains no Roman numeral, its value in the series equals its ordinal place in the series. If it contains a Roman numeral, the value of that Roman numeral is its value in the series. So twelfth number = 12 (no Roman numeral in word). Eleventh number = 50 (L) or 5 (V) or 55 (LV).
I like geofan's mention of Ken Berry in his answer for the Slice. I had completely forgotten about him! Had I not, I would have incorporated him into my puzzle text somehow.
DeleteLegoMayberryMountAiryMaryBerryKenBerryAuntBeery(Hic!)
SCHPUZZLE: PEARS and BANANAS? => BEARS and PANANAS/ i.e. PANDAS? [I know, close but no cigar!]
ReplyDeleteHORS D’O: ELLiPSiS The DOTTED ‘i’s' [Hint: BEijiNG, KiRiBATi, MALiCiOUS MiSCHiEF]
SLICE: I want it to be: STARS HOLLOW; but possibilities include: COLLINSPORT, CAPESIDE, EVERWOOD, FAIRVIEW, MIDSOMER, ROSEWOOD, SMALLVILLE, STAFFORD, SUNNYDALE
ENTREES:
1. RHYTHM, IMPROMPTU & JOHANNES => JIM HUMPHREYS, NORTHAMPTON
2. BRIAN PICCOLO; FOREST; BEAR
3. CHATTANOOGA CHOO CHOO => CAT, GOAT, NOAH
5. MONTGOMERY => Remove ‘GOMER' => MONTY [Python]
Sorry, I never could make myself even READ Entrees 6 through 11. Somehow, I am just too overwhelmed by so many puzzles these days. It takes too darn long to look everything up, and I no longer seem to have the patience to do so.
12. ROCHESTER => TER ROCHES => THE ROCHES
DESSERT: I II III IV IV IX V I I X __ ___ ONE TWO THREE FOUR FOUR FIVE NINE FIVE ONE ONE TEN ?? [I was tempted to graph these, on the Y-axis, vs moving out one unit for each on the X-axis, so I actually did, and the ‘curve’ resembles the Matterhorn! Which doesn’t help me at all!]
10/9/23” -Puzzeleria
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
Pears/ Brie- Bears and Prie (Prix)
Riffing Off Shortz And Humphreys Slices:
ENTREE #1 James Humphreys, Northhampton
Rhythm, Noah
ENTREE #2
Brian Piccolo, Wake Forrest- Chicago Bears.
ENTREE #3
Chattanooga, Cat, gnat, noah
ENTREE #4
Buffalo Springfield, Fort Worth”, For what it’s worth.”
ENTREE #5
Montgomery, Gomer Pyle, Monty Python
ENTREE #6
ENTREE #7
Chicago, Chic, Gogo
E NTREE #8
Torrence, Cal. , Dean Torrence, Jan and Dean, Tore, Ran
ENTREE #9
Beverly Hills, Beaver, Hills
ENTREE #10
ENTREE #11
The lowermost image part of the accompanying image (which is difficult to identify... Mea Culpa!) is a confectio
ENTREE #12
Rochester- The Roches
Sequential Dessert:
Schpuzzle
ReplyDeletePEAS and CARROTS, KEAS and PARROTS
See Lego's official answer recap for all cryptic details.
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Sound & Fury "Signifying Nothing" Hors d'Oeuvre
ELLIPSIS(involving dots, or TITTLES, over lower case I's and J's); The hint words are BEIJING(China), FIJI, and HIJINKS.
Vidiot Box Slice
MARY BERRY and PAUL HOLLYWOOD("The Great British Bake Off"), MAYBERRY("The Andy Griffith Show")and HOLLYWOOD(CA); According to the end credits, the show was of course filmed in Hollywood, but it did have an off-and-on storyline in which supposedly first a TV show, and then later a movie, would be made about Andy Taylor called "Sheriff Without a Gun". In Season 5, Andy is profiled in a national sheriff's magazine called "Law And Order"(sounds like it could be a TV show in itself!), and then a TV production team comes to town expressing interest in doing a show based on Mayberry's sheriff's department, but it turns out they were criminals merely wanting to rob the bank vault. In Season 6, Andy actually receives a check from a Hollywood production company for $1,000 for the rights to the magazine article from the previous season, to make a movie. This turns out to be legitimate, and results in a three-episode arc in which Andy, Opie, and Aunt Bee get to spend some time in Hollywood, watching the movie get made, taking in the sights, etc. Hilarity ensues.
Entrees
1. JIM HUMPHREYS, NORTHAMPTON(MA), RHYTHM, IMPROMPTU, JOHANNES(Brahms)
2. BRIAN PICCOLO(It doesn't just "sound like"a musical instrument. I was initially expecting a variant spelling of the instrument, but both are spelled the same.), BRAIN and PICCOLO; He went to WAKE FOREST, and later played for the Chicago BEARS(A bear can be found in a forest.)
3. CAT+GOAT+NOAH=CHATTANOOGA(TN); The song is "Chattanooga Choo-Choo".
4. FORT WORTH(TX), "FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH", by BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD(Buffalo, NY, and Springfield, IL)
5. MONTGOMERY(AL), GOMER(Pyle), MONTY(Python)
6. OGDEN NASH, OGDEN(UT), NASHVILLE(TN)
7. CHICAGO(IL), CHIC, A-GO-GO
8. TORRANCE(CA), (Dean)TORRENCE(Jan and Dean), TORE and RAN
9. BEVERLY HILLS(CA), BEVERLY SILLS, EVERLY(Phil and Don); A BEAVER can be found in a brook at the foot of the HILLS.
10. CONCORD(NH), CORNCOB
11. GREEN BAY(again), GREY(or GRAY)BEAN, SPOONER(WI)
12. ROCHESTER, THE ROCHES
Didn't get the Dessert. On a true personal note, Mom went to pick up our prescriptions at Walgreens after "The Masked Singer", and here it's close to McDonald's, so she got us supper too. I had a Big Mac, fries, and a Diet Dr. Pepper. She had a Filet-O-Fish and fries, and drank something here, but it took so long at the Walgreens drive-through she actually finished her fries in the car. I had also asked for a cinnamon roll, but she said McDonald's doesn't have them anymore. So I've sort of missed "dessert" twice tonight!
MASKED SINGER RESULTS:
The final "smackdown" was between S'MORE and PICKLE, in what viewers(really just yours truly)dubbed "The Battle of Sweet and Sour".
PICKLE=MICHAEL RAPAPORT(actor-comedian, didn't seem to take being unmasked very well or the fact none of the panel correctly guessed him)
S'MORE goes on to compete next week.
Tough break for Ken Jeong. Could've had a three-peat, but alas, it was not meant to be. In the words of the late Meatloaf: "Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad".
pjbHopesKen'sNot"CryingIciclesInsteadOfTears"
So what is the explanation behind the hint for 11 Across, "One of the two rock groups can be spelled correctly using one letter from the other group. Remove those letters, and the remaining letters in that order spell a word that is a synonym for 'group' or 'band'"? Lego's official answers don't seem to explain that one.
DeleteNoddWhoseEnquiringMindWantsToKnow
The answer, ELOQUENT, is comprised of ELO and QUEEN-E+T(this much you should already know). Using the E from ELO, it is possible to spell QUEEN correctly. Once you've removed this part, the remaining letters in order spell LOT. Sorry for any confusion. You shouldn't expect my later hints to be explained by Lego, just the original clues.
DeletepjbHasFoundThatSometimesMakingUpHintsForCrypticCluesCanActuallyBeMuchHarderThanMakingUpTheCluesThemselves!
I did not know any of the three possible candidates for the Smore's character.
Deletecranberry, thanks for the explanation. I still don't understand how ELOQUENT fits the clue, however. Does it tie in with "significant"?
DeleteThis week's official answers for the record, part 1:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
Are pears, oft pared, oft paired?
Name a pair of often-paired foods.
Change the first letter of one to a letter that doesn’t change that food’s pronunciation.
Switch the initial letters of the result to spell a pair of synonyms.
What are these foods and synonyms.
Hint: Most people would say that the often-paired foods are not “junk food.”
Hint: One of the synonyms might be a bit challenging if you are not into ortnithology.
Hint: one of the often-paired foods is visible in the puzzle text.
Answer:
Peas, Carrots; Keas, Parrots
peas carrots => peas karrots => keas parrots
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 2:
ReplyDeleteAppetizer Menu
Promethean Appetizer:
(Note: The filled-in grid to cranberry's Cryptic Crossword appears just above this week's Comments Section.)
ANSWERS:
Across
7. Starts once more to get booster shot?(7)
REBOOTS
BOOSTER anagram
8. Favorite music fad from the 70s(3,4)
PET ROCK
PET+ROCK
10. A soldier in trouble, being slow(6)
ADAGIO
A G.I. inside ADO
11. Significant 70s rock groups—one of them wasting energy, time?(8)
ELOQUENT
ELO+QUEEN-E+T
12. Drop drink and run(4)
TEAR
TEA+R
13. I got rare, uh, “moves” in video game(6,4)
GUITAR HERO
IGOTRAREUH anagram
14. “Housewife” looking for stuff about what this puzzle doesn’t have?(6,5)
MARCIA CROSS
CRAM reversed plus I(1)ACROSS(The first Across answer is 7 Across.)
19. For example, her recording gets a little erotic, it’s clear(10)
PRONOUNCED
PRONOUN+CD containing E
22. Stone—some gem, maybe?(4)
EMMA
hidden inside gEMMAybe
23. Old dog, unmarried now, dating again?(3,5)
OUT THERE
O+MUTT-M(married)+HERE
24. Wait for bits—no nonsense—in comic role(6)
LOITER
BITS-BS inside ROLE anagram
25. “Housewife”, not perfect, gets very loud(7)
(Felicity)HUFFMAN
HUMAN containing FF(forte or fortissimo, in music)
26. Start now, love(7)
INFANCY
IN+FANCY
Down
1. Worried, as trouble started(7)
NEEDLED
NEED+LED
2. “Housewife” could be liar? Go on!(8)
(Eva)LONGORIA
LIARGOON anagram
3. “Housewife” starts to toss recipes in air(6)
(Brenda)STRONG
T+R inside SONG
4. Sophisticated young lady, as it happens(8)
DEBONAIR
DEB+ON-AIR
5. Depression, constantly missing husband(6)
TROUGH
THROUGH-H
6. Off-screen? Yes, getting set(7)
SCENERY
SCREEN anagram plus Y
9. “Housewife” brings it up without hesitation: “The chicken or the egg?”(4,7)
TERI HATCHER
IT reversed containing ER+HATCHER(A chicken, the hen, can hatch an egg, or it may also be said the egg hatches. Therefore, either could be a "hatcher".)
15. Walk with a purpose, initially, when in bar(8)
CAUSEWAY
A+USE+W inside CAY
16. “Housewife”—the gal managed to get wild, defying the odds(8)
(Nicolette)SHERIDAN
SHE+RAN containing WILD-WL
17. Some argumentative couple in hurry—hard to get away? Hard!(7)
ARDUOUS
A+DUO inside RUSH-H
18. Challenge writer’s vision(7)
IMPEACH
I'M(I AM; The writer of the puzzle is once again speaking in the first person.)+PEACH
20. Warn of it getting worse in New York(6)
NOTIFY
OFIT anagram inside NY
21. “Housewife”—ultimately, man in drag?(6)
(Dana)DELANY
N inside DELAY
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 3:
ReplyDeleteSound & Fury “Signifying Nothing” Hors d'Oeuvre:
Sins?... No, signs! of omission
Take a word for punctuation that points to an omission in the text. The word itself provides a partially omitted visual example of how this punctuation appears on the printed page.
What is this word?
What is the partially omitted example it provides?
Hint: A world capital, an island nation, and a synonym of shenanigans each provide a visual example of this punctuation that is not partially omitted.
Answer:
Ellipsis (The two dots on the "i's" of "ellipsis" are two-thirds of an "ellipsis," a puctuation mark that consists of three dots: ...
Hint: Beijing, Fiji, hijinks,
Vidiot Box Slice:
“Citified” television personalities
Remove a letter and a space from the name of a TV personality to name a fictional TV show city. The surname of a related TV personality is a non-fictional TV show city that is associated with that fictional TV show.
Who are these personalities and cities?
Answer:
Mary Berry, Paul Hollywood (judges on "The Great British Bake-Off"); Mayberry (setting of "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Mayberry R.F.D."), Hollywood (home of Paramont Studios, where those television shows were filmed)
MARY BERRY - Y = MAYBERRY
Lego...
From pjb's reference in his Hors d'Oeuvre answer to the dots over lower case I's and J's as "TITTLES," I finally understand the full meaning of the Y.A. Tittle hint. I assumed it just referred to the dot over the i in the last name, without knowing there is actually a word for that mark. So it was a more clever hint than I gave it credit for. In the words of an esteemed judicial hot dog, "Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late."
DeleteThis week's official answers for the record, part 4:
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz And Humphreys Slices:
“Koalamazoo?” “Kalanmazoo?”
ENTREE #1
Gena Branscombe, Lili Boulanger, and Amy Beach,
Take the aspect of music comprising accent, meter, and tempo; a musical composition suggesting improvisation; and the first name of one of “The Three B’s.”
Rearrange the combined letters to spell the name of a puzzle-maker and his hometown.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
What are the aspect of music, the musical composition, and the first name of one of “The Three B’s?”
Answer:
Jim Humphreys of Northampton, Massachusetts; Rhythm, Impromptu, Johannes (Brahams)
Note: Entree #2 was composed by a valued Puzzleria! contributor and “occasional correspondent.” Our thanks.
ENTREE #2
Think of a person whose surname sounds like a musical instrument and whose first name is an anagram of a body part.
One football season during the 20th Century, this person led the nation in rushing yards, rushing touchdowns, and points scored. One word in the name of the institution for which he played in college spells the name of a place where an animal might be found. This animal is associated with the person’s post-college career.
Who is the person?
In what place might the animal be found?
What is the animal?
Answer:
BRIAN (anagram of BRAIN) PICCOLO; (Wake) FOREST; (Chicago) BEAR(s)
ENTREE #3
Name a U.S. city in four syllables that is in the title of a nearly-century old song. Rearrange the combined letters to spell two animals and the name of a human animal. The human is associated with animals, including those two.
What city is it?
Who is the human?
What are the animals?
Answer:
Chattanooga (Tennessee), Noah, goat, cat
ENTREE #4
Name a well-known southern U.S. city in two words. Delete the last letter of the first word, resulting in the first and final words in a four-word song by a group in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The two-name of the group consists of two cities — one in New York State, the other a state capital. One of the cities is also the name of an animal.
What are the southern city and the rock group?
What is the song title?
What are the New York city and state capital?
Answer:
Fort Worth (Texas); Buffalo Springfield, "For What It's Worth"; Buffalo, New York; Springfield, Illinois
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 5:
ReplyDeleteENTREE #5
Name a well-known southern U.S. city in four syllables. Remove consecutive interior letters that spell the first name of a sitcom character. The remaining letters, after you remove the gap left by the removed letters, spell the first word of a comedy troupe. The surname of the sitcom character and second word of the comedy troupe begin with the same two letters.
What city is it?
Who is the sitcom character?
What is the comedy troupe?
Hint: The second word of the comedy troupe is an animal.
Answer:
Montgomery (capital city of Alabama); Gomer Pyle; Monty Python
ENTREE #6
Name two well-known U.S. cities — one in a Rocky Mountain state, the other an Appalachian Mountain state. The first city and the first syllable of the second, two-syllable, city spell the name of a poet whose poems sometimes feature animals.
What cities are these?
Who is the poet.
Hint: Animals the poet wrote about include a llama, cow, pig, duck, fly and octopus.
Answer:
Ogden (Utah), Nashville (Tennessee); Ogden Nash
ENTREE #7
Name a well-known U.S. city in three syllables. Place duplicates of the last two letters at the end of the city. (For example, “Amarillo” would become “Amarillolo.”)
The first four letters of the result spell the name of an American disco band. The remaining letters, after you insert two hyphens, spell a synonym of the noun “disco.”
What city is it?
What is the name of the disco band?
What is the synonym of “disco”?
Answer:
Chicago; "a-go-go (a nightclub for dancing to popular music); Chic; a-go-go
ENTREE #8
Name a not-so-well-known southern Californian city in two syllables. Changing a vowel in the city to a different vowel results in the surname of a gifted album cover artist who was one-half of a rock duo who helped pioneer the California Sound and vocal surf music.
Delete the penultimate letter of the city. Move the last letter into the fourth position and and place a space after it. The result is two synonyms of “scurried.”
What city is it?
What is the rock duo?
What are the synonyms of “scurried?”
Answer:
Torrance (California); Jan (Berry) and Dean (Torrence); Tore, ran
TORRANCE=>TORRENCE
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 6:
ReplyDeleteENTREE #9
Name a well-known U.S. West Coast city in four syllables and two words. The first two syllables, with a letter inserted, will name an animal — one that might be found in a brook at the foot of the place named by the last syllable.
What city is this?
What is the animal?
Hint: Change the eighth letter of the city to a different consonant to name a woman who portrayed Rosina, Violetta and Elisabetta.
Answer:
Beverly Hills; Beaver
Hint: Beverly Sills
ENTREE #10
Name a well-known U.S. capital city. Move the penultimate letter into the third position and rotate the last letter 180 degrees around its vertical (“y”) axis. The result is a kind of ear.
What is this city?
What is this kind of ear?
Answer:
Concord (New Hampshire); Corn cob
ENTREE #11
Name a well-known U.S. city, in two words, that is an oxymoronic term consisting of an adjective and noun. Spoonerize these words by interchanging their initial consonant sounds. Reverse the order of those spoonerized words. The result sounds like an edible item consisting of an adjective and noun.
What is this city?
What is the edible item consisting of an adjective and noun?
Hint: The U.S. city is in a state with a smaller city whose name consists of seven consecutive letters that appear twice in the puzzle text.
Answer:
Green Bay (Wisconsin);
GREEN BAY=>BEEN GRAY=>GRAY BEEN=>GRAY BEAN
Hint: Spooner is a city in Wisconsin.
ENTREE #12
Name a well-known U.S. city, in three syllables, in both Minnesota and New York State.
Take the last three letters. Move them to the beginning, followed by a space. Change the third letter to an “h” and place it between the first two letters.
The two-word result is an all-female folky vocal trio from New Jersey.
What is this city in two states?
What is the folky vocal trio?
Answer:
Rochester; The Roches
Dessert Menu
Sequential Dessert:
12th Night, 12th hour, 12th number?
Name the twelfth integer in the following sequence:
1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 9, 5, 1, 1, 10, __, __
Answer:
55
(When the integers are spelled out as English words, those that contain Roman numerals are assigned the value of that Roman numeral. The twelfth number in the sequence, 12, when spelled out is tweLVe. LV=55 in Roman numerals.)
one = 1
two = 2
three = 3
four = 4
fIVe = 4
sIX = 9
seVen = 5
eIght = 1
nIne = 1
ten = 10
eLeVen = 11, 5, 50 or 55
tweLVe = 55
When the integers are spelled out as English words, those that contain Roman numerals are assigned the value of that Roman numeral.
When 12 is spelled out, it contains two consecutive "Roman numeral letters: LV. So, "tweLVe" = LV = 55.
We did not ask you to name the eleventh number in the sequence. That is because there are arguably as many as four possible correct numbers – all plausible, but none definitive. "eLeVen" is ambiguous, because there is an "e" between the L and V. Thus, you could write it as 50, 5 or even 55, or, perhaps (because of the ambiguity) even 11.
Lego!